Accident involving Waste Pro truck injures 2 near Vidalia High School
Published 9:31 am Thursday, June 17, 2021
First responders work on freeing a male victim from the driver side of a pick up truck Thursday morning. The driver sustained major injuries while a man in the Waste Pro truck sustained minor injuries. The wreck was on US84 by the Vidalia High School. (Hunter Cloud The Natchez Democrat)
First responders work on freeing a male victim from the driver side of a pick up truck Thursday morning. The wreck was on US84 by the Vidalia High School. (Hunter Cloud The Natchez Democrat)
The occupant of the Chevy truck was airlifted to Rapides Regional in Alexandria. He was alert but suffered major injuries. (Hunter Cloud The Natchez Democrat)
The medevac helicopter flies over Vidalia High School It was on standby at the scene of the crash and used the high school parking lot as a landing zone. (Hunter Cloud The Natchez Democrat)
A Chevy pickup truck was involved in a wreck Thursday morning with a Waste Pro garbage truck in Vidalia. (Hunter Cloud The Natchez Democrat)
The front end of the truck which struck the rear of the Waste Pro garbage truck. (Hunter Cloud The Natchez Democrat)
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VIDALIA — First responders worked the scene of a serious vehicle accident involving a Waste Pro sanitation truck and a white pickup truck Thursday.
Vidalia Police Chief Joey Merrill said the driver of the pickup truck was airlifted to Rapides Regional Medical center with serious injuries and the driver of the sanitation truck sustained minor injuries. No other passengers were involved, he said.
Vidalia police, Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office, Concordia Fire District 2, ambulances and a medical helicopter were at the scene at approximately 8:30 a.m. on Carter Street near Vidalia High School.
This story will be updated with more information as it becomes available.
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